The Jayhawks: Mockingbird Time – review

(Decca)More than the sum of their parts? That's the Jayhawks. Separately, the voices of Mark Olson and Gary Louris tend to be thin; together, their harmonies are as richly American, in their way, as the Beach Boys. Writing together melds Olson's country tendencies with Louris's rockier leanings. And now, 16 years after their last album together, they have reunited, to often glorious effect. She Walks in So Many Ways sounds like a lost Byrds outtake, and it's not hard to think the line that close...

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